Helena paper in qualitative research helped me to see how other people do their work. For me my question was. How to benefit for Helena experience in her analyses? Which part is relevant to my work?
I selected from here work some part which I think can be of more benefit. Here are some part which I decided to use in my research along the river side in Malakal.
1- The project background:
I decided to use the first part of here paper the project background. The way she has introduced her topic, she give the reader a background about the landscape and the important of it. she show to the reader that the action research can be a better option to her for increasing the awareness of the people for better change she said “I believe that Action Research function as a way to increase the awareness of landscape changes”
For me I think through action research I can involve the local people to participate in the research process. I need in my research to increase the awareness of the local people, I want them to see if there are building material available local, and to find possible ways to increase the production of the sand and the gravel locally.
2- Project objective:
I decided to use the project objectives as she did. Because the participants and the reader should know what is the driving force behind my research. The way she put the objectives gives me the insight, and let me organize my objectives accordingly.
3- The introduction:
She said “There is a generally known image of Sweden as a country where public participation and communication in the planning process is widely accepted and used (Hillbur 2008). Thisimage is not really true even though Sweden was a forerunner in the nineteenth century with its cooperative society”
For me I tried to use her introduction to describe the real situation of Malakal in term of building, the challenges for obtaining the building materials since the independence. I want the my participant to know the situation can not go along like this there should be some possibilities to get these materials locally.
4- Research Method:
I decided to mentioned the research method because I think it is important to tell the participant and the reader what are the method I used to gather the data. As well as the tools used.
5- Data analysis:
I tried in the section to see the way she has analysed her work, to benefit from her experience.
What parts I didn’t use:
I did not use a big part of her analyses because she has used different stage in her analyse which I did not do in my research from example Method of Coding , narratives, the analysis of change and the analysis of history
I did not use them because I think some of these are not relevant to my work.
Conclusion:
Helena Mellquist paper it is a useful one, helped me to understand how is the research can be organize and how data can be analysis. Even though all the part of the document are useful. I was very carful in selecting the relevant things to my situation. One part I did not use I wish to use it in my next work is Analysis with images I found it very interesting.
